ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Deiphobus, Iliad, Calchas
29 Oct 2017
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Homer means hostage in greek: was he a slave, we know he is not the sole author of the piece. The play is based around troy, which is known as ilium in greek. There are two major themes: the rage of achilles, the will of zeus. Judgment of paris: paris is a prince of troy, must judge between athena, hera, and aphrodite, all offer him something but aphrodite offers the hand of the most beautiful woman helen. Xenia: guest/host relationship which is held in high esteem in ancient. Greece: paris leaves with helen, menelaus"s wife breaks code. Helen kind of accepted the new relationship: she had the face that lost one thousand ships. , greeks need to get her back leads to trojan war. Hector prince of troy, leader of troops, brother of paris. Cassandra always prophesying but nobody ever believes her, sister of paris. Priam father of all above, too old to lead army.
